by Natasha McEnroe
‘Against images made by hands': Florence Nightingale’s reluctant life in portraiture
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Lectures | All ages | 6 years ago | 1403 viewsRating:

Florence Nightingale disliked having her portrait taken as much as she hated being a celebrity, yet it was largely through the visual representations of her face and person in the press that she gained iconic status in Victorian England. Used as a mo....

by Jack Tomasetti
A History of Bicycles
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Undergraduate presentations | All ages | 8 years ago | 4100 viewsRating:

This presentation reviews the basic history of the bicycle starting with the Hobby Horse. We discuss significant changes to the bicycle in terms of efficiency, safety and comfort. These advances in bicycle technology include lighter construction, the....

by Rolf-Dieter Heuer
A linear collider at CERN – from IOP
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Interviews | All ages | 9 years ago | 1202 viewsRating:

The boss of CERN wants the next big experiment in particle physics after the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) to be built at the Geneva lab. Speaking in an interview with physicsworld.com, Rolf-Dieter Heuer said that CERN should host the experiment, which....